Wanted an opinion on what you guys think the sex of this fish is and if you think it's a full Jack Dempsey or some hybrid?
JD male or female?
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Thanks. I wanted a second opinion, someone on a different forum said it looked like a hybrid which wouldn't surprise me but I think he's full too
Looks to be a normal male JD to me too.
Females lower jaws have a very blue tint throughout, often called a blue beard, yours has blue spotting but not the blue smudge associated with females.
As far as being a hybrid though, today because everybody and their cousin are crossing cichlids, its becoming hard to tell the mutts from the real species.
In any hybrid spawn, a certain percentage will look more like the father, another % like the mother, and a small % something-between, or different.
Females lower jaws have a very blue tint throughout, often called a blue beard, yours has blue spotting but not the blue smudge associated with females.
As far as being a hybrid though, today because everybody and their cousin are crossing cichlids, its becoming hard to tell the mutts from the real species.
In any hybrid spawn, a certain percentage will look more like the father, another % like the mother, and a small % something-between, or different.